I wanted to debug an Android app that uses HTTPS requests with a JSON API. Thanks to this article I’ve been able to use my Windows 10 computer to get all the network from my Android phone thru my local network and decode the HTTPS requests !

On a remote PC it was another logon name that appeared by default… In that case I had to click on “Switch User”, then “Other User”, and finally enter my username and password. Very frustrating.

After a few searches I found we can change the default name using the registry and with the below commands (to enter into a cmd console in admin mode) :call reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI" /v LastLoggedOnSAMUser /t REG_SZ /d "The_Default_Domain\The_Default_Username" /f
call reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI" /v LastLoggedOnUser /t REG_SZ /d "The_Default_Domain\The_Default_Username" /f

Let’s say your network admin blocked the default screensaver timeout to 15 minutes, but you want more…. You can change this timeout by running as an administrator the regedit then use the “Find…” command to look for “ScreenSaveTimeOut”.

It should be under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop

I have IE11 on my pro laptop, with Bing, while I want to use Google as my default search engine. However it keeps returning me the page http://www.iegallery.com/addonsie7/ with no way to install another search provider…

If you create an Excel file using an HTML Table, then it exists a way to format the cells based on some CSS rules. Some examples can be found on this blog post.

I spent some time trying to figure out how to display correctly the dates, whatever your regional settings are ; for exemple in the USA the format is MM/dd/YYYY, and for the rest of the world is dd/MM/YYYY.

Finally I found that the content of the date cells must always be defined with the same format : YYY-MM-dd HH:mm, and then we can apply a style like mso-number-format:"dd\-mmm\-yyyy\ hh\:mm".